To Begin

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To Begin

• If you were absent yesterday, please turn in the
  FRQ you completed over break.
• Pick up a map from the front and label the
  following
• The 12 free states (as of 1820)
• The 12 slave states (as of 1820)
• The Missouri Compromise Line (3630)
• Territory in the Louisiana Purchase considered
  free
• Territory in the Louisiana Purchase considered
  slave
• Reminders
• Quiz over Chapters 16 and 17 on Friday
• Rough Draft of Biography Project due Tues. 10/25
  please staple the planning document to the
  draft

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• The Missouri Compromise provided that
• Missouri be admitted as a slave state, Maine
• be admitted as a free state, and
• all of the Louisiana Territory north of the
  northern boundary of Missouri be closed to
  slavery.
• all of the Louisiana Territory north of 3630 be
  closed to slavery.
• the entire Louisiana Territory be open to
  slavery.
• the lands south of 3630 be guaranteed to
  slavery and the lands north of it negotiable.
• all of the Louisiana Territory north of the
  southern boundary of Missouri be closed to
  slavery for 30 years.

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Slavery Document Activity

• Examine your assigned document
• What do you know? (facts derived from the
  document)
• What can you infer? (conclusions, connections,
  significance)
• Please write the information on you own paper.

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The Slavery Argument
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Antebellum South

• Was slavery more of a burden or a benefit to
  Antebellum America?
• 10/19

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Cotton

• Invention of cotton gin made cotton the staple
  Southern crop.
• Northern merchants and textile mills, as well as
  Europe, depended on Southern cotton production
  King Cotton.
• By 1840, 50 of U.S. export profits were from
  cotton.
• Demand for cotton demand for slaves.

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Southern Economy

• Agricultural focus produced unstable economy
• Exhausted land
• Fluctuating prices
• Discouraged industry and immigration
• false prosperity
• Plantation system
• Economy and government run by small group
• Social Stratification
• Planter elite
• Small farmers
• Poor whites

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Slavery in the South

• Unequal distribution
• most slaves owned by planter elite
• poor whites still defended b/c dreamed of being
  slave owners and racial superiority
• Sustaining Slavery
• importation outlawed in 1808
• were investment, so wanted to keep slaves alive
  and encourage procreation
• majority of the population in the deep south
  development of slave culture
• Treatment of Slaves
• sources of labor and sexual satisfaction
• long hours and harsh conditions
• beatings
• separation of families

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Fight for Equality

• By slaves
• work slowly
• steal
• sabotage equipment
• poison owners
• rebel or run away

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Fight for Equality

• By slaves
• work slowly
• steal
• sabotage equipment
• poison owners
• rebel or run away
• By abolitionists
• American Colonization Society (1817)
• Liberia (1822)
• American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
• William Lloyd Garrison
• The Liberator
• Sojourner Truth Frederick Douglas
• Racial inequality common in the north

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Pro-Slavery Response

• Tightened slave codes
• Paternalistic argument
• Religious argument
• Comparisons to Northern factories
• Economic necessity for the entire nation

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To End Synthesis Exercise

• Using information gathered from at least three of
  the sources we examined today, answer the
  following
• Was slavery more of a burden or a benefit to
  Antebellum America?
• DONT QUOTE the documents use inferences
  drawn from the documents
• response should be a minimum of a 5-sentence
  paragraph